“Brayden Harrington, the 13-year-old New Hampshire boy who bonded with President-elect Joe Biden over their shared experience with stuttering, will be part of the prime-time special capping off Biden’s inauguration…
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the…
“Congressional leaders, including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will skip President Trump’s departure ceremony in Maryland tomorrow morning in favor of attending mass with…
Associated Press: “Two U.S. Army National Guard members are being removed from the security mission to secure Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. A U.S. Army official and a senior U.S. intelligence…
“The 147 Republican lawmakers who opposed certification of the presidential election this month have lost the support of many of their largest corporate backers — but not all of them,”…
A new Associated Press-NORC poll finds 53% of Americans name COVID-19 as one of the top five issues they want the government to tackle this year, and 68% mention in…
“When Liz Cheney voted last week to impeach the president, it was, depending how one sees the last four years, an act of great bravery or supreme arrogance. President Trump,…
CNN: “The President has been in a foul mood for several days and has lost interest in the performative parts of the presidency he once relished.” “While he’s eagerly anticipating…
Tim Naftali: “Trump was a serial violator of his oath—as evidenced by his continual use of his office for personal financial gain—but focusing on three crucial ways in which he…
First Read: “Nothing he will say in his inaugural address and no executive order he will issue in his first days will be more important than achieving his goal of…
Joe Scarborough told the Times Radio that he consulted defamation lawyers in New York and Washington, D.C., about a potential lawsuit after President Trump suggested repeatedly last year that Scarborough…
Politico: “Thirty-two percent of Europeans say that after electing Donald Trump president in 2016, Americans can no longer be trusted, according to a new poll.” “Germans were most distrustful of…
President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate Pennsylvania’s top health official, Rachel Levine, to be his assistant secretary of health, the Washington Post reports. Levine, a pediatrician, would…
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As President Trump prepares to leave the White House, 47 percent of Americans say he will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, according to the…
“The FBI privately warned law enforcement agencies Monday that far-right extremists have discussed posing as National Guard members in Washington and others have reviewed maps of vulnerable spots in the…
“White House officials don’t expect President Trump to pardon himself, family members or close aides, but clemency is in the works for a famous rapper and others,” Bloomberg reports. “Trump…
Sources familiar with the planning tell ABC News President Trump “wants to have a military-style sendoff from Joint Base Andrews Wednesday morning, complete with a military band and a red-carpet…
A top Republican official in Wyoming floated the idea of seceding from the United States after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) embraced the impeachment of President Trump, the Washington Examiner reports….
“President-elect Joe Biden will roll out a sweeping overhaul of nation’s immigration laws the day he is inaugurated, including an eight-year pathway to citizenship for immigrants without legal status and…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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